Valentine's Day 2011

Despite the colds, the sniffles, the fevers - daycare is sometimes a pretty good thing. Today we were invited to The Cottage School for a Valentine's Day party in Sabrina's room. We had to bring cards for all the other kids in her classroom (9 plus Sabrina) and hand them out to the other kids. All of the kids also made their parents Valentine's Day cards with pictures of them attached. The party itself was a bit of a dud, we have to admit, but we did have a chance to spend some time at her daycare with all the other kids and talk to her teachers, Zoe and Justine, for longer than usual. When it came time to hand out the Valentines, Sabrina showed off her sweet, intelligent self. We would hand her a card and ask her to go give it to Crystal and lo and behold, she would walk across the room and give it to Crystal! She did the same for everybody else in the class...although at times she walked back over and took it away....well, they are still learning all those social skills, right? It was pretty funny. We were impressed that she knew all the kids in the class by name and can follow instructions so well these days. It was also great to see her interacting with all the other kids. She's learning so much!
Her teachers told us how sweet she is and how much she makes them laugh every day. One said that Sabrina's "cute sounds" keeps her smiling all day. It's still great to hear that we have a cute, nice kid.

Not many other parents showed up to the party, and those who did didn't stay long, but it was still nice to put a few names to the faces of the others kids in class. We still miss Lexy, Kristi and Andy a lot but it was good to meet a few new people.

Brent's real motivation for showing up to the party was my story from last week of this adorable little boy, James, who is always there at the end of the day with Sabrina. Well last week, I caught James and Sabrina KISSING each other goodbye! Brent had to meet this kid, and hopefully talk to his father. Well James' parents didn't show up, but we did hear a bit more about the story and it turns out that James kisses everybody...including his first love, Jonathan, whom he smooched on the playground awhile ago. He's just a lover, we guess! At least he's a cutie. I'm ignoring the germ implications of this entire story...lalalalalala....

It was a silly little event, but one that I'm glad we attended. It just feels good to know a bit more about where she is all day and with whom she's spending her days. It's a nice place and she still seems to be doing very well there. She's completely comfortable in her new room and seems to be holding her own with the big kids.

It was also nice to be home from work and daycare early today so Sabrina and I could head down to the park to do some swingin' and slidin' and enjoy the 60+ degree weather in Boulder.

And finally, Brent proved that romance can still exist even with a toddler in the house and he cooked me a wonderful dinner complete with chocolate fondue! What a guy.

Here are some photos of her Valentine's Day loot, our trip to the park, and our yummy dinner.



Happy Valentine's Day to all and thank you for all of her great cards and gifts!